Overview of the muscular dystrophies / A.A. Amato and R.C. Griggs -- Dystrophinopathies / L. Morrison -- Sarcoglycanopathies / J. Kirschner and H. Lochmuller -- Congenital muscular dystrophies / S.E. Sparks and D.M. Escolar -- The collagen VI related myopathies: Ullrich congenital muscular dystrophy and Bethlem myopathy / C.G. Bonnemann -- Limb girdle muscular dystrophy 2A / E. Gallardo, A. Saenz and I. Iilla -- Dysferlinopathies / A.A. Amato and R.H. Brown Jr -- Other limb-girdle muascular dystrophies / A.A. Amato -- Limb girdle muscular dystrophy 2H and the role of TRIM32 / P.B. Shieh, E. Kudryashova and M.J. Spencer -- Caveolinopathies : translational implications of caveolin-3 in skeletal and cardiac muscle disorders / E. Gazzerro, A. Bonetto, and C. Minetti -- Myofibrillar myopathies / D. Selcen and A.G. Engel -- Emery Dreifuss muscular dystrophy / M. Puckelwartz and E. McNally -- Facioscapulohumeral dystrophy and scapuloperoneal syndromes / R.W. Orrell -- Oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy / B. Brais -- Myotonic dystrophy type 1 and 2 / T. Ashizawa and P.S. Sarkar -- Distal muscular dystrophies / B. Udd.